New Delhi, Sept. 27 -- India's news media consuming public hopped up on the propagandist drivel dished out day in and day out by the brazenly pro-establishment vacuous superstar TV anchors is suddenly discovering what credible and independent journalism looks like. It has come in the form of a damning expose of the rot in the country's Election Commission of India (ECI) by the print journalist Ritika Chopra, who is a senior correspondent of The Indian Express.

At its core, Ritika's story is about how the country's Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar kept his two fellow commissioners Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi in the dark about the way in which Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, which is otherwise a routi...